To think that describing someone as 'hipster'...

Had DHs long term friend and his wife over recently. A mutual friend asked how they were and I said words to the effect of 'oh X (male half of the couple) is utter bliss as ever. I adore him, he's so hipster!' She recoiled in horror and told me that I couldn't use 'hipster' to describe someone as it was as bad as saying someone is 'chavvy' (though, obviously with completely different meanings). FWIW it would never cross my mind to describe someone as 'chavvy' as for me it has unpleasant connotations.

X is in his 40s, I'm late 30s. X works in tech, is v stylish, wears clothing brands that will be fashionable in a years time, is a real muso, can talk for whole minutes about which coffee he prefers, is off beat and cool and adorable and good fun... which equates to hipster in my mind.

MN - am I using the word wrongly? Has 'hipster' acquired a derogatory meaning? Help!

OP, your utterly blissful friend must surely have been a Guardian Weekender at some point. Does he sport an unusual moustache? He'd be described as "Crispin Urquhart, 44, Civil Servant and mixed media artist", and he'd wear his quirkiest plus-fours for the photo.

I know these people exist, but they're like nothing I've ever encountered in real life. I'd be like someone at a zoo if I found myself in one of London's hippest corners.

It's not really on the same level as chav to me, because being chav implies worse things about the person and their background. Hipster is basically shorthand for "pretentious wanker", which isn't exactly a nice thing to call someone. They take themselves too seriously, and look faintly ridiculous, whilst thinking they're cool. Everything is "too mainstream" for them.

I think it's both an adjective and a noun, i.e. someone is a hipster, but you can also have hipster clothes, and so on.

A friend was visiting London from another country, and arranged to have drinks in Shoreditch. I lasted about 20 minutes before I had to get out of their- my skin was CRAWLING from all the hipsters. Poor friend didn't realise what he'd made us go to

I did a piece on the price of childhood if money was no object and you were mad.

At the time there wasn't a hipster way to spunk money on baby clothes.

I concentrated Bonpoint and Baby Dior which are . I prefer Bonpoint to Baby Dior, but that's because I tend more towards trad than bling, which further marks me out as tragically unhip. Unfortunately I'm poor as well.

I found a Clements Ribeiro cashmere cardi for £150 (we're talking at least 15 years ago) that was lovely but hot and destined to get ruined in a horrible back-of-the-nappy shit incident.

I'd rather buy a cashmere cardi for myself. Happy mum, happy baby and all that

What Brooklyn Hipster kids take for lunch....here. These are the packed lunches of the twins belonging to former NY Times Food editor Amanda Hesser. She poaches tuna for them to take. There are no words. And I thought the stacked sandwiches my kids took were the bomb